Typewriting machine



J. A. B. SMITH TYPEWRITING MACHINE Dec. 29,1925- Filed March 1, 1923 Patented Dec. 29, 1925 'iJNiTEo STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE A. B. SMITH, or sentences), connnorrcur, nssrenon 'ro unnsnwoon TYPE- wnrrsn COMPANY, or new roan, n. Y., A conronA'rron or DELAWARE.

Trrnwnzrrine MACHINE.

Application fiIed March 1, 1923. Serial No. 621,992.

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Be it known that I, Jnssn A. B. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing in Stamford, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typewriting Machines, of which the following is a s ecifioation.

his invention relates to typewriting machines, and more particularly to that class known as continuous billing machines.

These are used for typing forms of which number of duplicates are to be made, such as copies of customers orders to be used as invoices, packing slips, sales records, etc., and also for inter-department memoranda, such as duplicates of parts of customers orders, to be distributed among various departments. It is customary to make copies of an order on a continuous billing machine for the shipping department, the bookkeeping department, and a copy to be used as an invoice to the customer, together with such other copies as may be desired, this being done upon a pr nted bill-form that has a heading for the name, address, date, etc., and a body for listing the items of the order. It is desirable to furnish the order department with a copy also; but, where the order is to be filled by more than one division of the order department, it is desirable to split the customers order into a series of small orders, each o1 which will bear only such items as may be grouped in one division. F or instance, hats may come from one divi sion, shoes from another, and suits from a third division, and all of these items may be sent separately to the shipping department to be there assembled and shipped to the customer in a single package.

A separate printed form is used for these split orders which resembles the bill i orm mentioned in having a similar head for the name, address, date, etc, but differs from the bill-form in that the body-portion is divided by perforated lines of detachment into a series of coupons or sections. This form is also different in that it is not printed on a continuous work-sheet, like the bill-form mentioned, but is printed on single sheets of varying lengths to accommodate forms having different numbers of coupons. This is done so that an order which contains four items may be typed on a form having four coupons, and an order containing seven items may be typed on a form having seven coupons, thus preventing waste of excess coupons which might occur if a single length of form having a plurality of coupons was used.

In practice, the single sheets bearing the coupons may be made up separately into packs of as many individual sheets as there are copies desired, and this pack is fed into the machine from underneath the worksheets which bear the bill-forms, and which extend over the rear of the work-presenting frame of the machine from the feed side of the platen. Means are provided on the dclivery side of the platen for collating the two sets of forms to permit the typing of individual items on the separate coupons of the coupon-form simultaneously with the typing of the complete order on the billforms, and the invention described herein provides means to enable an operator to quickly insert and accurately gage the sheets bearing the printed coupon-forms in the machine one after the other as the days orders are typed on the bill-forms.

\Vhen the platen is raised for the purpose of permitting the work web to be straightened out and the carbon-sheets to be witlr drawn from the typed form and shifted to the next form, the forward end of the web is withdrawn from the platen and lifted up, and then a separate work-slip is thrust bark beneath the web into a pocket or chute which is provided upon the carboi'i-carrier. According to the present improi'emeuis, this chute is provided with work-guiding sides which are relatively convergent from front to rear, to cause the work-slip to be moved sidewise as it is thrust back, until the slip is adjusted laterally to a position to accord with the position of the side-edge gage provided for the frontend of said slip upon the collating table at the delivery side of the platen.

111 the drawings are shown features that are claimed in my application No. 586,06-l, filed September 5, 1922;.but the claims in this case are limited to features not shown in said application.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a sectional view of partof a continuous billing machine showing the platen and sheet-collating means and the work-presenting frame of the machine bearing a carbon-withdrawal mechanism on which the insertion and gaging means have been mounted. V

Figure 2 is a detail perspective view of the carbon-withdrawal mechanism with parts broken away to show the construction of the insertion and gaging means mounted thereon;

ire 2; is a diagrammatic view of the edge of a continuous work-sheet having a bill-form printed thereon.

l igure Jr is a diagraiumatic VlUW of a single separate sheet having a coupon-form with seven coupons printed thereon.

The platen 5 is supported in a carriage 6 on a platen-shaft 7. Also supported by the carriage 6 are a front paper-table 8 and a rear paper-table 9. Feed-rolls l0 and 11 guide the work-sheets underneath and around the platen, and situated near the front of the platen is a web-severing knife 12 for cutting the work-sheets at the conclusion of a typing operation. Mounted on the front paper-table 8 is a collating table 13, which has upturned side portions forming gages 1 1. Suitable side clamps carrying side gages 15 for the separate order slips are provided for the purpose of holding the main work-webs in place on the table 13 while the order slips are being drawn past them. A suitable gage 16 is provided for gaging the ends of the work-webs. A carriage bar 17 engaging to the lower side of the rear papertable 9 supports the front end of a work-presenting table 18. Slidably mounted on the work-presenting table 18 is a carbon-Withdrawal mechanism 19 having a base 20, a dis placement handle 21, and carbon-sheet-hold ing members supported on brackets 23. adjustably mounted on the brackets 23 are gages 24-. having body-portions 25 and stopportions 26. ii chute or pocke. 27 is fastened on the base 2 of the carbon-withdrawal mechanism 19 between. the brackets 23.

The chute 27 is substantially rectangular in shape, and has its side edges upturned to form guiding members 28. The forward edge 29 of the chute 2'? is bent down to enable a work-sheet 30 to be slipped into the chute more easily, and the upturned guiding members 28 are cut out, as at 31, to permit the adjustment of gages The sectional order slip or work-sheet 30 may have a heading-portion 33 and a body-portion 3% divided into a plurality of sections or conpons 35 separated from one another by perforated lines of detaehment 36. The main work-sheet 32 may be in the form of a con tinuous work-sheet bearing a succession of duplicate printed forms 3?, which are separated'from one another by perforated lines of detachment 38, and each of the printed forms 37 may be further divided into a heading-portion 39, similar to the headingportion 33 of the order slip 30, and a bodyportion 40, which is usually longer than any of the individual sections or coupons of theorder slip 30.

In operation, a pack composed of several of the main work-webs 32 is interleaved in the usual manner with carbon-sheets which are fastened in the carbon-withdrawal mechanism 19. This is done when the platen 5 is in the elevated position shown in Figure 2 of the patent to VVernery & Smith. No. 1,132,055, dated lviarch 1(5, 1915. Another carbon-sheet, also fastened in the carbonwithdrawal mechanism 19, is placed on the bottom of the pack and the whole is threaded through the machine. One of the order slips 30, having the requisite number of conpons to correspond with the items of an or-- der to be typed, is inserted bottom end foremost underneath the elevated platen 5 and the work-webs 32 thereunder and over the turned-down edge 29 and into the chute 27 and is pushed rearwardly to be positioned between the guiding members 28. The

gages 24.- are set to keep the main work .item of the order is typed, the worksheets- 30 and 32 are advanced together by the linespacing mechanism. Then the order slip is advanced separately with the aid of the clamps 15 on the collating table 13 and the gage l6, and the next item is typed, until the entire order has been transferred. The clamps have gaging abutrnents 15 for the side edges of the order slips. The worksheet 30 is now removed from the machine, the carbon-sheets are withdrawn, or shifted, and the work-sheets 32 are severed at the perforated lines 38 by means of the knife 12. A new order slip 30 is thrust 'back into the chute 27 and the entire operation repeated for the next order.

The construction of the chute 27 and the manner of fastening it on the carbon-withdrawal mechanism 19 is such that a very difiicult operation, namely, the threading of the work-sheets 3O underneath the pack of work-sheets 32, after the leading ends of the latter are withdrawn from the raised platen, is made a comparatively easy task. it

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a typewriting machine, in combina tion, a revoluble platen, a work'presenting frame behind said platen, carbon-with draWal mechanism mounted on said workpresenting frame, means mounted on said carbon-withdrawal mechanism to facilitate the insertion of a separate work-sheet underneath the main web to be drawn around said platen to a position on top of said web, said insertion means comprising a chute having a body portion, a downwardly-bcnt forward edge and upturned side edges forming rearwardly-converging side guides having foiwvardly-inclined surfaces on their tops that slope from their rear ends down to a point at their forward ends where they join the bottom of said chute, said inclined surfaces being provided with slots or cutout portions in their rear ends to allow for the passage of gages that may be adjusted transversely of said chute, and gaging means mounted on said carbon-withdrawal mechanism to guide said pack or web.

2. In a typewriting machine, in combination, a revoluble platen, a work-presenting frame behind said platen, carbon-withdrawal mechanism mounted on said workpresenting frame, a chute having rearwardly-converging sides mounted on said carbonwithdrawal mechanism to facilitate the insertion of a separate work-sheet underneath the main web to be drawn around said platen to a position on top of said web, and gaging means mounted on said carbon'withdrawal mechanism to guide the pack or web, said gaging means comprising duplicate gages having slotted body-portions and flattened gage-portions bent up therefrom.

3. In a typewriting machine, in combination, carbon-withdrawal mechanism, and means mounted on said carbon-withdrawal mechanism to facilitate the insertion of a separate work-sheet into the machine, said insertion means comprising a pocket or chute having a body-portion, a downwardlybent forward edge and upturned side edges forming rearwardly-converging side guides having forwardly-inclined flat surfaces on their tops that slope from their rear ends down to a point at their forward ends where they join the bottom of said chute, said inclined surfaces being provided with slots or cut-out portions in their rear ends to allow for the passage of gages that may be adjusted transversely of said chute.

4. In a typewriting machine, in combination, carbon-withdrawal mechanism, and means mounted on said carbon-withdrawal mechanism to facilitate the insertion of a separate work-sheet into the machine, said insertion means comprising a pocket or chute having a body-portion, a downward ly-bent forward edge and upturned side edges forming rearwaidly-converging side g uides.

In a typewriting machine, in combination, carbon-withdrawal mechanism, and means mounted on said carbon-withdrawal mechanism to facilitate the insertion of a separate work-sheet into the machine, said insertion means comprising a pocket or chute having a body-portion, a downward ly-bent forward edge and upturned side edges forming rcarwardly-conrerging side guides having forwardly-inclined fiat surfaces on their tops that slope from their rear ends down to a point at their forward ends where they join the bottom of said chute.

(i. In a front-strike typewriting machine having a revoluble platen, a work-web-prcsenting device in rear of the platen, the conr bination with a collating table at the delivery side of the platen and a side gage thereon for a separate work-slip occupying a position on the platen outside of the worisweb, of a pocket or chute on said presenting device and beneath the work-web and located in correspondence with said side gage and open at its front to receive said work-slip as the latter is thrust backwardly, said chute having slip-guiding sides or flanges which are relatively convergent from front to rear, for causing the slip, as it is thrust back, to move sidewise into a location corresponding with the position of said side gage on the collating table.

7. In a typewriting machine, the combination with a carbon-withdrawal mechanism including transverse blades secured to carbon-sheets interleaved among plies of Web, of a chute mounted on said mechanism below said blades to facilitate the insertion of a separate work-sheet into the maclaine below said plies of web, said chute having a central portion and upturned edges (:OIISLI- tuting rearwardly-com'erging side guides for centering said work-sheet as it is thrust rearwardly therebctween.

8. In a typewriting machine having a platen and a carriage therefor, the combination with carbon rithdrau'al mechanism including transverse blades secured to carbonsheets interleaved among plies of web, of a chute mounted on said mechanism below said blades for guiding a separate work-' sheet below said plies of web, a support for said work-sheet rearwardly of said chute and rigid with said carriage, and guiding means for said plies of web above said sup port.

JESSE A. li. SMITH. 

